philosophygirl78
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The wisdom of Pluto?
Time is indeed a human construct. It is a method for recording events that occurred prior or subsequent to this exact moment, events that can be used as a frame of reference for comparison in order to determine how, and/or if, humankind has progressed since those events occurred. We even count events that haven't occurred yet. "Boy, I'm sure looking forward to seeing that movie that opens next weekend." It hasn't even happened, yet we're counting the passage of time until it does. And once it does occur, we'll count the moments since it's passing; "Boy, that sure was a good movie we saw last week."
And if you think about it, time is mathematics. We're constantly adding moments that we ourselves have defined; seconds become minutes, minutes become hours, hours become days, and so on.
That's the thing--we each create our own reality. A simple example would be this: Three people witness an event, let's say a car accident. When recalling the event at a later point in time, each of them might relate different details specific to that event. One might say the driver of the first car was tall, another might say the driver was short. One might recall the second car was brown, while another might say it was red. And so on. So, right there, you have three different realities. And then you have the realities of the drivers of the cars involved, any passengers that might have been in those cars, other witnesses, and so on. A single event can have a multitude of realities. Which reality is the true reality?
Re - 'recording events' - not exactly. it is more for Observing what we label as events. we cannot record something just as surely as cannot ascertain it within a construct created for the purpose. in this way, it is a sort of 'constant' used in a framework for the observable. anything further is a stretch...
Re - 'mathematics' - math is not a construct. it is verifiable, so in this way it is a tool used to measure the dynamics of time.
Re - 'we each create our own reality' - what is "reality"?
how do you define it and how can every person have their own? If we define the Reality in the sense of the Oxford Definition it is the world as it actually exists. This, cannot be part of a varying perception of infinite possibilities. Yet it seems to be, doesn't it? You should check out the documentary I pinned earlier on this post.. It addresses this very topic. 
